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BBC News
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China's human rights record is getting worse, not better, because of the Beijing Olympics, a rights group says.
According to Amnesty International, China is clamping down on dissent in a bid to portray a stable and harmonious image ahead of the Games i..
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BBC News
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The diversion of water for the Beijing Olympics threatens the livelihoods of millions of people, a senior Chinese government official has said.
The official, An Qiyuan, from Shaanxi province, told the UK's Financial Times newspaper that people in north..
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BBC News
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US film director Steven Spielberg has withdrawn as an artistic adviser at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
In a statement, he accused China of not doing enough to pressure its ally Sudan to end the "continuing human suffering" in the troubled western Darf..
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FOX News
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Chance of showers during the 2008 Beijing Olympics: 50 percent. But Chinese meteorologists have a plan to bring sunshine.
The meteorologists say they can force rain in the days before the Olympics, through a process known as cloud-seeding, to clean the..
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www.unmadeinchina.org
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What is the secret of the Chinese economy?
Often when we try to understand the reason why Chinese goods (shoes, clothes, toys, gadgets…) cost so little, the answers we are given by newspapers and television shows are always the same: incredibly long..
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BBC News
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China's foreign minister has strongly criticised "anti-China forces" he says are determined to politicise this year's Beijing Olympics.
Yang Jiechi said individuals and groups were trying to tarnish China's image.
In recent weeks human rights groups..
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BBC News
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Beijing has gone on the offensive following the resignation of Steven Spielberg as an artistic director to the Olympic Games.
State-run media has criticised the Hollywood director, saying his actions were naive and defied common sense.
At the same t..
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Washington Post
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An upheaval like the pro-democracy uprising taking place in Burma over the past month tends to shake up certainties that had seemed self-evident. Certainties such as the primacy of justice. Or the sanctity of the Olympic Games.
Despite an academic indu..
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BBC News
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China risks spoiling the legacy of next year's Beijing Olympics unless it takes urgent measures to stop human rights abuses, Amnesty International has said.
In a report, the group accused China's authorities of detaining activists and journalists witho..
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CNN
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Still a year away, the Beijing Olympics are poised to be the grandest Games of all. This has been called "China's Century," and the games will reflect the country's lofty ambitions when they open on August 8, 2008 -- a watershed of sports, politics and th..
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BBC News
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Some official merchandise for the 2008 Olympics in China has been made using child labour, forced overtime and low wages to boost profits, a report says.
Playfair - an alliance of world trade unions - has condemned "severe workers' rights violations" i..
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CNN
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Three Americans and a Tibetan-American were detained on Mount Everest on Wednesday as they called for independence for Tibet and protested against the Beijing Olympics, an activist group said.
The protest was organized by Students for a Free Tibet, whi..
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Yahoo News
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Beijing is unlikely to be totally free of Chinglish signs by the 2008 Olympics, but the government is increasing efforts to improve the capital's once lamentable English, a senior official said on Wednesday.
"You can't talk in absolutes," Liu Yang, dep..
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BBC News
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The 2012 London Olympics could become a magnet for human traffickers bringing in prostitutes and illegal workers, the government has said.
The Home Office has unveiled plans to combat gangs who imprison women and force them into the sex trade and push..
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